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CHARLOTTE
RAMPLING:
'IT'S
A
GOOD
FILM.'
Potentially
JTotorfou
They
are
saying
in
the
movie
business
that
The
Night
Porter
will
do
for
Charlotte
Rampling
what
Last
Tango
in
Paris
did
/or
Maria
Schneider--make
her
an
overnight
sensation.
Charlotte
Rampling
is
a
beautiful
young
English
actress
who
lives
in
Southern
France
with
her
writer-husband
Brian
Southcombe
and
their
19-month-old
son
Barnaby.
More
than
a
year
ago
Charlotte
went
to
Italy
and
Austria
to
star
opposite
Dirk
Bogarde
in
The
Night
Porter,
a
film
in
which
she
plays
a
14-year-old
Jewish
girl
and
Bogarde
acts
a
sadistic
Nazi
concentration
camp
officer
who
subjects
her
to
the
most
awful
sexual
degradations.
The
production,
directed
and
written
by
a
woman,
Liliana
Cavani,
tells
the
story
of
a
group
of
ex-storm
troopers
who
have
escaped
punishment
by
killing
all
the
witnesses
to
their
wartime
brutalities.
Bogarde,
a
night
porter
in
a
Viennese
hotel,
notices
one
afternoon
in
1957
that
a
young
woman
he
tortured
in
the
concentration
camp
has
checked
into
the
hotel
with
her
husband,
an
American
orchestra
conductor.
Bogarde
and
Rampling
recognize
each
other.
For
some
strange,
inexplicable
reason
the
young
woman
finds
her
former
tormentor
irresistible.
She
leaves
her
husband
and
moves
into
his
apartment
where
he
again
debases
her
with
his
sadistic
sexuality
which
feeds
her
masochistic
appetite.
The
film,
which
won
an
award
at
Grenoble,
France,
was
released
in
Paris
last
month.
It
received
mixed
reviews.
As
of
this
writing,
The
Night
Porter
has
yet
to
be
released
either
in
England
or
the
United
States,
much
to
the
irritation
of
Charlotte
Rampling
who
says,
"I
don't
know
why
it
should
be
unacceptable
in
England.
But
if
s
a
good
film,
and
I've
got
faith
in
it,
and
it
should
be
shown
both
in
Britain
and
America
for
those
people
who
want
to
see
it."
Charlotte,
the
daughter
of
Col.
and
Mrs.
Godfrey
Rampling
of
Middlesex,
is
currently
being
seen
in
Zardoz
opposite
Sean
Cannery,
a
film
she
finished
long
after
working
in
The
Night
Porter.
Degree
Pays
A
man
with
a
college
degree
can
expect
to
earn
$758,000
before
he
dies.
That
good
news
comes
from
the
U.S.
Bureau
of
the
Census.
While
many
job-seeking
college
graduates
may
not
agree,
the
census
bureau
reports
the
yearly
income
of
men
with
college
degrees
in
1972
was
$16,200,
compared
to
$10,430
for
high
school
graduates.
The
census
bureau
did
not
report
salary
averages
or
lifetime
revenue
expectations
for
women
college
graduates.
Illiteracy
Among
Our
Young
Five
percent
(1
million)
of
all
Americans
aged
12
to
17
are
illiterate.
That
disturbing
news
comes
from
a
Department
of
Health,
Education
and
Welfare
survey.
Defining
illiteracy
as
the
ability
to
read
at
a
beginning
4th-grade
level,
government
researchers
found
that
a
young
male,
born
and
raised
in
the
South,
as
a
member
of
a
large,
low-income
family
having
parents
of
limited
education
was
the
most
likely
candidate
for
illiteracy.
Using
mobile
examination
centers
to
test
word
recognition,
the
researchers
discovered
that
boys,
white
and
black,
demonstrate
a
higher
percentage
of
illiteracy
than
girls
(6.7
percent
for
boys
as
compared
to
2.8
percent
for
girls);
white
youths
have
a
lower
rate
of
illiteracy
than
black
youths
(3.2
percent
for
whites,
15
percent
for
blacks),
and
the
rate
of
literacy
improves
with
increased
parental
education
(27.4
percent
illiteracy
rate
for
youths
whose
parents
possessed
no
formal
education
compared
to
8.9
percent
if
parents
attended
elementary
school).
Illiteracy
is
most
prevalent
in
the
South--8.8
percent
for
white
males
and
2.7
percent
for
white
females,
26.9
percent
for
black
males
and
14.5
percent
for
black
females.
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Political
pundits
who
downgrade
the
potential
of
"the
student
vote"
had
better
reconsider.
When
students
get
behind
issues
which
are
important
to
them,
smoking
marijuana,
for
example,
they
can
become
a.viable
political
force.
Some
weeks
ago
the
residents
of
Ann
Arbor
and
Ypsilanti,
with
the
assistance
of
student
populations
at
the
University
of
Michigan
and
Eastern
Michigan
University,
voted
to
set
a
$5
maximum
fine
as
a
penalty
for
smoking
marijuana.
Buoyed
by
their
success,
the
Michigan
collegians
are
now
engaged
in
a
campaign
to
place
the
issue
of
legalizing
marijuana
on
the
November
ballot
in
Michigan.